Uzbekistan, Tashkent, May 8 / Trend D. Azizov /
The Uzbek population increased by 82,300 in January-March 2013 and of April 1 it reached 30.76 million, the Uzbek State Statistics Committee said today.
According to the committee, the population of the country has increased by 0.3 per cent since early 2013. In this case, the ratio of men and women remained approximately equal with 15.059 million being male and 15.016 million female.
It was previously reported that in 2012 the Uzbek population increased by 1.5 per cent to 29.994 million.
According to the committee, 15.401 million (51.2 per cent) lived in towns, whilst 14.674 million were in rural areas (48.8 per cent) as of early April.
The fertility rate for the first three months of the year decreased by 0.3 ppm compared to the same period of 2012 amounting to 16.6 ppm. The death rate fell by 0.1 ppm, up to 4.7 ppm.
Some 54,500 marriages and 4900 divorces were registered in Uzbekistan in Jan.-March. Some 7.4 ppm marriages fall to 1000 people (7.5 in the same period of 2012) and 0.7 ppm divorces which correspond to the same period of 2011.
According to the preliminary data, the number of people arriving in the country amounted to 41,900 compared to 30,200 in the first quarter of last year, while the number of people leaving the country reached 47,400 (37,500).